“Orphan,” out July 24, is a creepy-kiddie movie in the grand tradition of “The Bad Seed,” “The Omen,” and, more recently, “Joshua.” Vera Farmiga will be more or less reprising her role from the latter as a mom driven round the bend by the horrifying antics of her offspring (adopted, in this case).

Though it seems to be a straight-ahead horror movie, one report from a cinema over the weekend has the film’s trailer eliciting giggles from the audience, especially the ominous tagline “There’s something wrong with Esther.” But laughter must be a welcome relief for Warner Bros. compared with the outcry over the film’s original trailer, which, ABC News reported, included the line “It must be hard to love an adopted child as much as your own.” Predictable outcries flooded in from adoption-rights groups, and it looks like that line has been purged from the current version.